To pray for our daily bread looks back to God’s supernatural provision of manna in the wilderness and cannot be understood without remembering the two key elements of that story—the daily provision of bread for five days and the double portion on the sixth.
To pray for God’s will to be done is to ask that God would morally transform his people into those who obey his commands.
To pray that God’s kingdom would come is to pray that God’s church would grow to the point of perfect fullness, at which point Satan’s kingdom will be completely destroyed.
To pray that God’s kingdom would come is to pray that God’s church grow to the point of perfect fullness, at which point Satan’s kingdom will be completely destroyed.
The preface to the Lord’s Prayer establishes the character of prayers and being a loving, yet respectful, interaction between the God of heaven and his children.
While the whole Bible teaches us how to pray because it teaches us what is important to God, we also have specific instructions from Jesus that teach us how to pray.
Prayer must flow out of a humble heart which evidences itself in confession of sin and gratitude for all that God freely gives.
Prayer is not about changing or controlling God—prayer is the art of learning to think God’s thoughts after him. the discipline of naming his desires back to him, and the blessing of learning to delight in what delights him.
By faith, when we eat the Lord’s Supper, we receive the benefits of what Christ accomplished in his life, death and resurrection.
By faith, when we eat the Lord’s Supper, we receive the benefits of what Christ accomplished in his life, death and resurrection.
By faith, when we eat the Lord’s Supper, we receive the benefits of what Christ accomplished in his life, death and resurrection.
In the Lord’s Supper, the body and blood of Jesus are pictured for us, but in a way so as to emphasize, not what he looked like, but what he did with that body and blood—namely die for us.
Pastor John Shaw is the head of Home Missions (church planting) in the OPC. He visited Reformation and share about his work and the current state of church planting in our denomination.
Baptism marks the recipient out as being a part of the church and, therefore, belongs to all who have a right to the title “holy.”
Baptism, as a sign of the new covenant, represents the washing away of sins through the shedding of blood, comforting those who respond in faith and condemning those who respond in disbelief.
There are two sacraments tied to the covenant of grace in each testament—one received at the beginning of life and one repeated throughout the life of the believer.
The sacraments are something that God uses to benefit his people when they receive them with humility and faith, but that they are dangerous when we take them in the wrong way.
God has instituted two signs that he applies to his word and to his people to identify them as belonging to him and bearing his authority.
There is appropriate way for us to respond to the ministry of the word, without which we should not expect it to be effectual in our lives.
The way to spiritual health, like the way to physical health, is actually quite boring and ordinary, it consists in feeding on God’s word and making regular use of the things he has told us benefit us.
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